Donal Hord, an American sculptor, was born Donald Horr in Prentice, Wisconsin.
10 Facts About Donal Hord
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Donal Hord arrived in 1916, the year that the Panama-California Exposition had taken over Balboa Park, and where Hord was exposed to the architecture of Bertram Goodhue, the sculpture of the Piccirilli Brothers and the cultural, ethnographic and botanical exhibits that helped make up exposition.
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Donal Hord later became a respected artist in her own right.
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In 1920, Donal Hord met an ex-US Navy sailor named Homer Dana became Donal Hord's assistant, model and companion for the rest of his life.
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Dana's ability to handle the larger, heavier aspects of sculpture allowed Donal Hord to produce larger works than his physical limitations would have otherwise allowed.
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In 1934 Donal Hord applied to, and was accepted into, the Federal Art Project.
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Donal Hord was one of 250 sculptors who exhibited in the 3rd Sculpture International held at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in the summer of 1949.
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On June 29,1966, Donal Hord suffered a fatal heart attack.
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Donal Hord bequeathed to the San Diego Public Library his lifelong collection of books and several sculptures in appreciation for the assistance he had received from library's staff over the years.
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Besides the standard bronze, limestone, granite, cast stone, terra cotta, and the marbles used by other artists, Donal Hord's works appeared in various tropical woods such as mahogany, eucalyptus, ebony, lignum vitae, and rosewood, and in minerals such as obsidian, diorite, onyx and nephrite.